Course programme

The program will be broadly classified into three sections:

The first section will be utilized to cover introduction to commodity markets, both in India and abroad; regulatory framework, issues in commodity trading and markets, future of commodity trading in India, various commodities traded in markets, bank finance, understanding of other markets like stock market and forex market etc.
The second section will cover derivative products, options, futures and spot trades, mechanism of trading, clearing system, margin requirements, mark to market system, membership issues and registration procedure, risk management, hedging and speculative trading, difference between commodity trading and stock trading, special issues relating to commodity market.
The third section will cover actual trading practices, hands on experience on trading, particularly trading in select commodities, visit to the exchange, mock-trading sessions / games and assessment of the result of the mock trading sessions and taxation aspects of the commodities market.